REGENT
Senior Manager, Structures
North Kingstown, Rhode Island, USA · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 26 days ago
FEACFDStructural AnalysisLeadershipAdaptability
About the role
- As the Senior Manager, Structures, you'll lead the team responsible for one of the most fundamental aspects of a safe, certifiable vehicle - ensuring our Seaglider can withstand everything it encounters in service, and proving it to the standards required for certification.
- You'll join an existing team of capable engineers and become their functional home: setting technical standards, developing careers, and building a cohesive, disciplined group that programs across REGENT can rely on. You'll own the quality and consistency of structural analysis, margin documentation, and certification artifacts - not just for one program, but as a function.
- Working closely with Loads & Dynamics, Flight Physics, and Manufacturing, you'll own the structural side of critical cross-functional interfaces: how loads are applied, how margins are calculated, how FEM fidelity is maintained, and how test correlation closes the loop between analysis and reality.
Responsibilities
- Establish Structural Analysis Standards: Define and enforce the discipline's standards for analysis methods, documentation, configuration control, and review processes - ensuring consistent quality and traceability regardless of which program the work supports.
- Own Structural Substantiation and Certification Approach: Lead the team's work toward certification-ready artifacts - margin documentation, allowables basis, and compliance approaches for structural substantiation across programs.
- Drive the Composites Knowledge Base: Own the composites allowables and design-values roadmap - understanding what data exists, what testing is needed, and what interim assumptions are in use. Build the team's depth in composite laminate design and analysis.
- Manage Key Cross-Functional Interfaces: Partner with Loads & Dynamics on load application, margining conventions, and FEM integration.
- Work with Manufacturing on design-for-manufacturability and how process constraints feed into structural design.
- Own Structural Test Planning and Correlation: Define test plans, manage building-block test programs, and own the process for closing the loop between analysis predictions and test results - building a reusable capability the function can apply across programs.
- Functional Management Experience: Proven experience in a functional management or discipline-lead role with real people management responsibility - hiring, development, and performance - distinct from program execution leadership.
- Structural Substantiation and Certification Experience: Direct experience leading or owning structural analysis in support of a certification or classification program - familiarity with how structural margins, load factors, and safety factors connect to the certification basis.
- Team-Building Track Record: Demonstrated experience developing engineers' careers, establishing discipline-wide standards, and building a cohesive technical team - ideally in a matrix environment.
- You communicate effectively and collaborate with engineers, stakeholders, and other cross-functional teams to align on goals and move projects forward.
Requirements
- Extensive hands-on experience with composite laminate design, analysis methods, and structural test - including familiarity with manufacturing processes (autoclave, infusion, OOA) and how they feed into design decisions.
Nice to have
- Proficient with structural FEA tools (Nastran preferred) - has built and interrogated GFEM or detailed models and understands the assumptions behind them.
- FEA Proficiency: Proficient with structural FEA tools (Nastran preferred) - has built and interrogated GFEM or detailed models and understands the assumptions behind them.
Compensation
- Competitive compensation including a robust equity incentive plan.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation including a robust equity incentive plan.
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance - we cover 100% of your premiums.
- Generous flexible time off, paid parental leave, and company-wide holiday breaks.
- Learning & professional development opportunities
- You bring people together, ensuring that everyone is on the same page and moving towards a shared vision.
Company info
- Lead and Develop the Structures Team: Own the people side of the Structures function - conducting 1:1s, building development plans, identifying skill gaps, and creating a team identity engineers want to be part of.
- Even if you don't meet every requirement, but you see yourself contributing to our mission, we encourage you to apply!
Equal opportunity
- Employer
- REGENT is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.
- REGENT is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment.
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